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<p>Appeared on Bookreporter.com in 2005</p> <p><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=476,height=695,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/faithful.jpg”><img title=”Faithful” height=”219″ alt=”Faithful” src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/faithful.jpg” width=”150″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a> Michael Kun, co-author of <em>The Baseball Uncyclopedia</em>, made a particularly astute observation about the state of baseball literature over the last few years. Go into a bookstore, he writes, […]

<p><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=500,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/rise.jpg”></a><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=500,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0′); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/rise_1.jpg”><img title=”Rise_1″ height=”175″ alt=”Rise_1″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/rise_1.jpg” width=”175″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a>Appeared on JanuaryMagazine.com in Nov. 2003</p> <p>&quot;When Leonard Koppett died earlier this year, he left a tremendous void in the world of sports journalism. </p> <p>&quot;Koppett, who was named […]

As former professional athletes move deeper and deeper into senior citizen status, it becomes increasingly interesting, akin to listening to our grandparents discuss what life was like “in the day.” Baseball has always “enjoyed” a reputation that is almost a necessity, given its relatively slow pace. There is plenty of time to think, to talk. […]

<p><span face=”Verdana”><em><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=500,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/shadows.jpg”><img title=”Shadows” height=”150″ alt=”Shadows” src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/shadows.jpg” width=”150″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a> Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal</em>, </span><span face=”Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif”>by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams</span></p> <p><span face=”Verdana”>&quot;Shortly after Jose Canseco’s tell-all Juiced came out in 2005, with allegations […]

<p>Since Michael Lewis’s <em>Moneyball</em> — the behind-the-scenes story of how general <a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=458,height=700,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/11590329.jpg”><img title=”11590329″ height=”152″ alt=”11590329″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/11590329.jpg” width=”100″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px” /></a> manager Billy Beane assembled the Oakland Athletics — hit the bookstores in 2003, several authors have attempted to copy the behind-the-scenes formula.</p> <p><a […]

<p>Appeared in <em>ForeWord Magazine</em>, May/June 2004<a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=321,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/baseballforever.jpg”><img title=”Baseballforever” height=”155″ alt=”Baseballforever” src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/baseballforever.jpg” width=”100″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a></p> <p>&quot;Ralph Kiner was smart enough to realize early on that a career in sports is short and uncertain. Nevertheless, he happily contradicts that notion as he reminisces in this […]

<p>Appeared in <em>ForeWord Magazine, </em>May/June 2006<a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=150,height=225,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/buryingtheblacksoxbookcover.jpg”><img title=”Buryingtheblacksoxbookcover” height=”150″ alt=”Buryingtheblacksoxbookcover” src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/buryingtheblacksoxbookcover.jpg” width=”100″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a> <a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=240,height=240,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/burying.jpg”></a></p> <p>“The scandal … was not ‘eight men out’ for throwing the series,” writes the author in his new take on the most […]

<p><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=240,height=240,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/fewchosen.jpg”><img title=”Fewchosen” height=”100″ alt=”Fewchosen” src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/fewchosen.jpg” width=”100″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a> </p> <p>Appeared in <em>ForeWord Magazine, </em>January/February 2002</p> <p>&quot;Next to the Marines, the New York Yankees are the epitome of ‘the few and the proud.’ Throughout their major league existence–more precisely since they &quot;stole&quot; Babe […]